Newtown Board of Ed Asked To Consider Cops In All Schools

Some parents in Newtown are urging the local Board of Education to consider stationing police at all town schools as the board puts together its budget proposal for 2013-2014.

Three parents called for school resource officers at all Newtown schools at a school board meeting Tuesday night, saying the town should do all it can to prevent another tragedy like the one at Sandy Hook Elementary School last month. A gunman killed 20 first-graders, six educators and himself after fatally shooting his mother at their Newtown home.

Superintendent of Schools Janet Robinson’s proposed $73 million education budget includes $165,200 for an extra eight security guards. She says safety became officials’ top concern after the shootings.

Newtown has a high school, middle school, intermediate school and four elementary schools.